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Historical Event on 1/19/1839
Aden conquered by British East India Company.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/4/1987 | A Swedish Government enquiry finds that Bofors paid commission to middlemen for concluding Arms Purchase Agreement with India. |
| 4/7/1998 | Soli Sorabjee is appointed Attorney-General of India. |
| 11/18/1911 | Free primary school education is introduced. |
| 8/9/1942 | The Congress at its Bombay session passed the famous Quit India resolution, calling for mass struggle on non-violent lines on the widest possible scale, under the leadership of Gandhiji. He stressed that ""We shall either free India or die in the attempt; We shall not live to see the perpetuation of our slavery""; popularly known as ""Do or Die"". But before the Congress could start the movement, the government arrested all the major leaders and the Congress was declared illegal. Spontaneous popular revolts broke out with the battle cry of 'British Quit India'. |
| 4/30/1909 | R. Shankar, politician, journalist and former Chief Minister of Kerala, was born. |
| 9/10/1858 | Manilal Nathubhai Dwivedi, great author and father of modern Gujarati poems, was born. |
| 9/24/1859 | Nana Saheb, alias Dhundu Pant, one of the top leaders of Sepoy Mutiny, passed away in Nepal. |
| 11/21/1992 | 27 killed in a bomb blast engineered by Bodo extremists in a bus in Assam. |
| 3/18/1972 | First Indian Book Fair was organised by National Book Trust in New Delhi. |
| 1/23/1814 | Sir Alexander Canningham, Indian Archeologist, was born. |
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